The Morning Brew

Software

• Small Basic : v0.4 of Small Basic says "Bonjour" – The Small Basic annunce their latest CTP release, which includes a number of bug fixes, a new Timer object to assist in writing games, and localisation capabilities for the UI and Help.
• 2009-4-11 release of the All-In-One Code Framework – ‘colbertz’ announces the release of a new build of the All-In-One Code Framework, a set of framework implementations of common Microsoft Technologies such as COM, Data Access, IPC, etc, providing you with a solid basis to implement your functionality in these technologies on top of.
• NServiceBus 1.9 RTM – Udi Dahan announces the RTM release of NServiceBus 1.9, containing only a few minor changes over the previous RC release.

Information

• Speeding up a local build – Jimmy Bogard looks at some of the things you can do to improve the time to build of your complex solutions, allowing you to do full builds (including tests) before committing to source control.
• CLR Assembly RegEx Functions for SQL Server by Example – Phil Factor explores the support in SQL Server for CLR assemblies and looks at using this functionality to allow SQL Server to use .NET Regex functionality
• NHibernate mapping – <database-object/> – Ayende continues his runthrough of the functionality provided by the NHibernate Mapping Files, with a look at the database object tags allowing you to have custom SQL run at schema create and drop time by NHibernate
• Refactoring Project Structure is just as important as Refactoring Code – Derik Whittaker talks about the importance of keeping your project structure sane as a part of your refactoring.
• Custom Route Constraint in ASP.NET MVC – Keyvan Nayyeri explores the ASP.NET MVC Routing extension point for providing constraints to the routes you create, allowing you to perform business rule based validation.
• Name a variable like you name your first-born – Jonathan Cogley highlights a nice quote from James O. Coplien suggesting that you should put a lot of thought into the names of your variables.
• Exploring the Z3 Theorem Prover (with a bit of LINQ) – Bart De Smet explores Theorem Provers by looking at a Microsoft Research project ‘Z3’ which is used ‘under the hood’ in Pex. At an initial read this is quite complex stuff, but looks very interesting too.
• 5 Useful Visual Studio C# Snippets – Hatim Rih shares 5 useful Visual Studio Snippets which provide implementations of 5 common coding tasks
• Controls with Transparent Background made EASY!. – Dean Moe looks into creating transparent background WinForms controls in this Code Project article
• A new flag to optimize ASP.NET compilation behaviour – David Ebbo talks about a new feature in ASP.NET 4 / VS2010 which is available now as a HotFix for .NET 3.5 SP1 which is intended to make the compilation process quicker when changes are made to any top level files.

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